Riverbed and Orange Business Services are joining forces to create new possibilities in the management of hybrid enterprise networks

Orange Business Services is integrating Riverbed SteelConnect software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology into its hybrid network portfolio. With SteelConnect, Orange customers will be able to more easily design, deploy and manage their distributed global networks and optimize the performance of applications, whether they’re hosted in the data center or in the cloud. It will also enable the development of virtual network function (VNF) for virtual desktop systems.

A pilot program is set to begin during the second quarter of 2017, and the VNF of the service is scheduled to be available at the end of 2017.